National Affairs: Unsworn Senators

As 32 new Senators and old marched up before Vice President Garner to
take the oath of office last week, two others looked on wistfully from
the sidelines.

One was Richard Charles Hunter, whom Nebraskans elected Nov. 6 to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator Howell. That term expired at
noon on Jan. 3, the hour at which the Senate met. So Senator Hunter was
never sworn in, never cast a vote, never got a word into the
Congressional Record. But he was not deprived of the privileges of his
position: he...